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As climate change accelerates, floating cities look like less of a pipe dream
Published Tue, Jan 31, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Hong Kong
YOU might call it a Noah's Ark for an era of melting polar ice sheets.
An audacious plan to respond to climate change by building a city of floating islands in the South Pacific is moving forward, with the government of French Polynesia agreeing to consider hosting the islands in a tropical lagoon.
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